【正文】 選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。每段對話僅讀一遍。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的 A、 B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。 A Conor Grennan was unwilling to be a volunteer(志愿者 ). The 29yearold American was not sure if he had the skills or a strong feeling for , he went to work at an orphanage(孤兒院 ) in Nepal. His first thought was to make people impressed. I thought that if I volunteered just once. I could retell the story over and over, Grennan said in a Huffington Post , his threemonth stay it the orphanage turned into in unusual experience. It was 2021 and Grennan had given up his job to begin a yearlong aroundtheworld trip, His first three months were spent in Nepal. When he arrived in the village, he knew nothing about the children or the local culture. When he opened the gate of the Little Princes Children39。 families, I started walking with photos of the kids. he told the Reuters reporter. I would show up in villages and show photographs around. I went with 24 photos, and I found 24 families. At the same time, he put his heart into Nepalese culture. Grennan said, “Volunteering is the single best way to see how the rest of the world lives.” He also encouraged others to do what he had done. He believes that volunteering needs only making decisions to show up. Grennan39。s art gallery six or seven men, mostly in their 30s, are busy painting the walls with new designs in colorful lettering and clever tricks. Tins of spray paint and beer stand on the ground. The atmosphere is not unlike that of a golf course: a mix of concentration and relaxation. Graffiti(涂鴉 ) painting is traditionally a daring hobby. Teenagers avoid security guards to put their names on trains and buses. But over the past decade that has almost disappeared from Britain39。t run away from the police any more, says Ben Eine, who turned from tagging to street art. The hiphop culture that inspired graffiti in the first place has faded. Video games and ic books provide more inspiration than music. Graffiti may eventually disappear. But for now the hobby is almost respectable. Mr Eine says he has lots of friends who used to paint trains. Now with wives and children, they paint abandoned houses at the weekend. It has bee something to do on a Sunday afternoon—a slightly healthier alternative to sitting watching the football. do the painters feel while painting graffiti according to the first paragraph? A. Free but stressed. B. Free and focused. C. Particular and respected. D. Nervous but satisfied. is graffiti painting traditionally considered as a daring hobby? A. It39。s dangerous to paint in trains. D. It needs a great deal of knowledge. does the underlined word “decline” in the third paragraph refer to? A. Ban of government. B. Reduction of graffiti. C. Disappearance of graffiti. D. Better policing of government. conclusion can we draw from the fourth paragraph? A. The early graffiti had something to do with music. B. Graffiti artists like to be the focuses in public. C. Graffiti artists regret over what they did in the past. D. Painting is much healthier than watching football. D Disposing(處理 ) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the wastedisposal problem bees increasingly difficult. During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dumpsite. Residents or trash haulers(垃圾托運者 ) would transport household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically(定期的 ) some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem. Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely